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The first wave of immigrants was largely from Western Europe. Where did most of

the second wave of immigrants come from?

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In 1880, the second wave of immigrants, primarily Italian and Russian, began to take over. The surge of Italian migration was due in large part to thousands who were displaced by natural distasters in Southern Italy—there was widespread disease and crop failure in the 1880s and in 1906 the eruption of Mt.

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